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Engineering recruitment contracts

UK public sector · 170 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
170
Last 12 months
Median contract
£71k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£61.3m
148 of 170 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
61
Suppliers
58

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most engineering recruitment contracts took 57% of them (97 of 170).
  • The median contract, £71k, is close to the median across recruitment & hr contracts (£70k).
  • Derbyshire County Council awarded 19% of the engineering recruitment contracts (33 of 170).

Who buys engineering recruitment

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Derbyshire County Council33 contracts
  2. 2West Midlands Combined Authority28 contracts
  3. 3Nuclear Restoration Services9 contracts
  4. 4Worcestershire County Council8 contracts
  5. 5Nottingham City Council8 contracts
  6. 6Cheshire West and Chester Council5 contracts
  7. 7Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council4 contracts
  8. 8Dacorum Borough Council4 contracts
  9. 9Environment Agency3 contracts
  10. 10Salford City Council3 contracts

Top engineering recruitment contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Matchtech47 contracts
  2. 2Waterman38 contracts
  3. 3Turner & Townsend4 contracts
  4. 4Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS)4 contracts
  5. 5Hays4 contracts
  6. 6G2V Recruitment Group4 contracts
  7. 7WSP3 contracts
  8. 8Mott MacDonald3 contracts
  9. 9Amey3 contracts
  10. 10Constellia3 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

33Q4 2025*39Q1 202667Q2 202631Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 163 · Scotland 6 · Wales 1

West Midlands41East Midlands23North West11East of England11London8North East6Yorkshire and The Humber4South East4South West4Scotland4Wales1UK-wide or not stated53

What is included

Temporary highways and civil engineers, technicians, inspectors, planners, surveyors and capital or estates project managers supplied on day rates to fill posts in the buyer's technical teams.

  • Highways and civil engineers and technicians
  • Street works inspectors
  • Transport planners
  • Quantity surveyors and contract administrators
  • Capital delivery, estates and highways project and programme managers
  • Estates change and planning managers
  • Programme delivery staff for transport and highways capital programmes
  • Commissioning and technical secondees
  • Nuclear safety case and engineering technical resource

What is not included

  • Trades operatives and labourers (see Construction and maintenance trades labour)
  • Housing and regulatory officers (see Housing and regulatory services temporary staff)
  • General project and programme managers outside estates and engineering (see Professional and management temporary staff)
  • Interim directors and heads of highways, planning or estates (see Interim executives)
  • IT and solution architects bought alone (see IT resourcing)
  • Engineering design delivered by a firm under its own management (see Design and engineering consultancy (unspecified))
  • Construction project management, building control and clerk of works delivered by a firm: csl.cpm.construction-project-management, csl.cpm.building-control, csl.cpm.clerk-of-works-site-supervision
  • Nuclear technical support delivered by a consultancy (see Nuclear engineering)
  • Works delivered by a contractor (see Construction & Trades)

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